SYNOPSIS: A brilliantly dark graphic novel, A City On Fire is the story of two match-makers. Rupert literally fabricates matches in a factory on the waterfront while Frances writes a dating column for the city’s newspaper. Both are recluses who haunt the night’s shadows, observing clandestine activities from afar but never partaking. That changes one fortuitous evening when they are both witness to the same high-profile murder and are forced to come together as an unlikely vigilante pair in order to save their own names.
NOTES
Cade oil
Spikenard
Cardamom
Clearwood
Dark Berries
Labdanum
Burnt Match
PERFUMER
Josh Meyer
HOW IT WEARS
A City On Fire opens like a match being struck – a blast of sulfur and ash. Aromatic and almost bitter at the beginning, the fragrance continues to develop, slowly revealing its sweeter more resinous notes, enrichened by berries and spice. This scent lasts incredibly well on the skin (around 6-8 hours) and really takes you on a journey throughout its wear, shapeshifting as time goes on.
LORE LOVES
This fragrance is a smoky masterpiece – starting brash and loud but dying down to a bed of resinous, sweet hot coals. A City on Fire is the perfect fragrance for going out in – for making an explosive entrance and then a mysterious, quiet getaway later in the night. There’s something distinctly alluring about this scent – there’s a raw, rugged sensuality to it that is kind of addictive.
ABOUT THE BRAND
First launched in 2012, in Portland, Oregon, Imaginary Authors offers wildly unique fragrances, born from the concept of scent as art and art as provocation.
Like a good book, these scents are meant to inspire you. Inside each bottle is a layered narrative sure to generate stirring conversation, fragrance that might be capable of changing the course of your own personal story. They not only invigorate and intoxicate, but transport you to new, unexplored places… just follow your nose.
Imaginary Authors’ fragrances are composed using a harmonious blend of essential oils, absolutes, isolated molecules, safe synthetic molecules, C02 oils, and resins. Free of parabens and phthalates, they abstain from animal testing and are totally vegan. Designed to be worn by anyone and everyone, their fragrances are totally genderless.
Each Imaginary Authors fragrance follows a compelling storyline peppered with intriguing twists. Every scent comes with its own fictional synopsis, but it’s up to the wearer bring the story to life.
These are scents to curl up with, to share with friends, to take with you wherever you go, and to return to again and again for a uniquely transcendent olfactory experience.
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